I'm starting to worry that I've turned in to some terrible harbinger of doom ( Read more... )

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The new 12-sided pound coin is in production, and will be introduced from March 2017. And it has 12 sides!

That means that when I said, back when it was announced in March 2014:I confidently predict that one result of this will be that the shape will change, so that it's constant-diameter, like the 50p and 20p pieces. Which I think in turn means ( Read more... )

On the better to hit-and-run post than not post at all principle ( Read more... )

So the US Federal Reserve has raised US interest rates by 0.25%pts after years of holding them on the floor. They are very smart people who should know what they're doing. It was a move long signalled in advance. They've indicated that they are not going to be moving to raise them again quickly, and when they do, it'll only be in small moves, and ( Read more... )

I've been partly shocked, partly not by the VW emissions scandal. As many commentators have observed, we've known for ages that real-world emissions are way worse than official tests. But for a company like VW to be caught with such a direct and obvious fiddle is a bit shocking.

Breugel has a short, interesting data post looking at the impact of ( Read more... )

Except, perhaps, "Wow ( Read more... )

... it's not very interesting. As I keep saying. Except it is because it has a material effect on people's well-being ( Read more... )

A prediction to log for my own satisfaction: it can't be long before protein becomes demonised in the daily deluge of poor-quality dietary moralising.
( Poor-quality dietary moralising moralising ... )

Quick thoughts about Greece to capture them ( Read more... )